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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Gabbard pressed on role in Ga. FBI raid

Garrett Owen

Gabbard said she oversaw "parts" of the raid on an election center, but avoided offering details

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. testifying during his Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Mullin grilled in DHS hearing

Garrett Owen

Lawmakers laid into the prospective DHS secretary over his past comments about ICE actions and fellow senators

A mural of Cesar Chavez is displayed at San Francisco State University on March 18, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Labor activist Cesar Chavez has been accused in an investigation of sexual abuse of women and minors. (Photo by Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)

Cesar Chavez accused of sexual abuse

Jelinda Montes

An investigation into the labor icon unveiled stories of sexual abuse of minors

Maikel Garcia of Team Venezuela defeating Team USA in the 2026 World Baseball Classic championship game. (Daniel Shirey/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Baseball resists the war mindset

Alex Galbraith

Team USA’s rah-rah, military-inflected approach clashed with a sport built on looseness — and lost

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Jack Russell Terrier proudly holding a poop bag dispenser in his mouth (Anna Reshetnikova/Getty Images)

Whose dog poop is in your trash can?

Andi Zeisler

In a time of zero-sum politics and slashed city budgets, the matter is getting more urgent

President Donald Trump receives the traditional bowl of shamrock from Taoiseach of Ireland Micheál Martin in the East Room of the White House, March 17, 2026. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Irish leader survives Trump ordeal

Andrew O'Hehir

Trump misgenders Ireland's president, rants about "windmills," demands world's gratitude — all in all, it went OK

GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

ICE “course correction”? Mullin isn’t it

Amanda Marcotte

The department of homeland security shutdown shows Republicans still answer to Stephen Miller

Attendees listen to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) speaking at a "Only Citizens Vote" Bus Tour rally at Upper Senate Park outside the U.S. Capitol on September 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Trump is all in on the SAVE America Act

Jelinda Montes

Republicans are pushing to get historically restrictive voter ID bill to the president’s desk

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks to guests following an event to release the new Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the East Room of the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s vaccine fight isn't over

Garrett Owen

Kennedy's critics celebrated the ruling, while the Trump administration vowed to overturn it

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 10: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with top business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the roundtable, Trump addressed questions on the Federal Reserve’s latest decision to cut interest rates and reports that the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, among other topics. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Donald Trump is losing the war at home

David Smith - The Conversation

Public opinion is staunchly opposed to Trump's actions in the Middle East

Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, testifies during the House Homeland Security Committee hearing titled "Worldwide Threats to the Homeland," in Cannon building on Wednesday, December 11, 2025. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Michael Glasheen, operations director, National Security Branch, FBI, also testified. (Photo by Tom Williams/Getty Images)

Senior US official: Iran was "no threat"

Alex Galbraith

Joe Kent resigned from the Trump admin on Tuesday, accusing the US of being pulled into a war by Israel

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

House subpoenas Bondi over Epstein files

Alex Galbraith

"We want the truth," a top Democrat on the Oversight Committee shared

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People held in custody in a cell during a walk around El Salvador CECOT mega prison in the municipality of Tecoluca on January 30, 2026 in San Vicente, El Salvador. (Photo by Alex Peña/Getty Images)

El Salvador is disappearing US deportees

Garrett Owen

Families and lawyers of CECOT detainees have been kept in the dark

Women thrown under the bus (Deagreez/Getty Images)

The women who belong under the bus

Andi Zeisler

Maxwell and Noem were happy to work on behalf of terrible men — and neither can claim that they lacked real power

Irish potatoes (Handmade Pictures / Getty Images )

A sweet Irish potato impostor

Francesca Giangiulio

This candy looks like a potato, tastes like coconut and rarely travels far from Philadelphia

Stop settling for sad parfaits

Ashlie D. Stevens

Roast the fruit. Brighten the yogurt. Salt the granola. A few small moves, a better parfait

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President Donald Trump has threatened reporters with treason over Iran war coverage (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Trump to media: Cheer the war — or else

Sophia Tesfaye

The president and FCC Chair Brendan Carr are threatening journalists and broadcasters for their Iran coverage

A protester joins the "No Kings" rally in Moscow, Idaho, in June 2025. (Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Even MAGA country is protesting Trump

Chauncey DeVega

New research shows a small but growing protest movement in areas that voted overwhelmingly for the president

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) talks to reporters after meeting with some of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers at the U.S. Capitol on September 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Big money shapes Illinois Senate primary

Russell Payne

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has raised much more cash than Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and other primary challengers

A dark smoke cloud engulfs destroyed vehicles near an ongoing fire following an overnight airstrike on the Shahran oil refinery in northwestern Tehran on March 8, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is weaponizing climate change

Troy Farah

The Iran war shows how fossil fuels, conflict and planetary crisis are now inseparable

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Student loan borrowers gather near The White House to tell President Biden to cancel student debt on May 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

Student debt crisis falls hard on women

Nadra Nittle - The 19th

Confusion, litigation and the threat of wage garnishment have left millions with few options and little hope

The Kansas state capitol in Topeka. (Photo by Don and Melinda Crawford/Getty Images)

License law leaves trans Kansans in bind

Garrett Owen

An ACLU attorney told Salon that a new law places trans Kansans in an "impossible position"

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Iran exposes Vance and Rubio's rivalry

Heather Digby Parton

The widening Middle East war has made it clear that Republicans learned nothing from Democrats' political missteps

Michael B. Jordan accepts the Actor in a Leading Role award for "Sinners" onstage during the 98th Oscars (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

An (almost) optimistic Oscars

Coleman Spilde

Host Conan O'Brien wanted the ceremony to indicate hope for the future. It only hit the mark half the time

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